Jay Cross

JANUARY 1, 2011

This evening I read an extremely clever book by a very funny man, the British graffiti artist Banksy. This guy is far out-of-the-box, not just stenciling ironic drawings on public walls, but also hanging his own faux-art in museums! No one will ever top the Brits in being eccentric.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 4, 2011

When my Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche switched from Delicious to Diigo, I figured I should probably do the same. After all, saving one’s tags is a cornerstone in Harold’s Personal Knowledge Management scheme of approaching the world. He has probably researched this a lot more than I ever will. Diigo has made it drop-dead simple to swap your tags from Delicious into their app.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 3, 2011

Last night I wondered whatever happened to Gloria Gery, so I dropped her a line. I’d lost track of Gloria when she was caring for Romanian babies and later on Romanian youth several years back. She sent me this photo from Antarctica: She reports, “I have been gone for six years and am completely detached… Am not on the net, facebook, linked in or anything else.&#.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 3, 2011

I’m simplifying and cleaning up my sites for the new year. I’m not quite finished weeding this online garden, but things are a lot more tidy than last week. I’m particularly happy with the way the Stocks & Flows page is turning out. My home page is less cluttered but still suffers aesthetically. Who’s got a site worth stealing ideas from?

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